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User_gary Posted 16 years ago
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Any cruelty

I find any cruelty to children utterly repellent.

Please explain to me what they mean by "any" here.
  

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It means all forms or degrees of cruelty.

  • It means all forms or degrees of cruelty.
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It means all forms or degrees of cruelty.
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Thank you friend.
Now I wonder then what repellent means here.

From a dictionary, "repel" means "to force something or someone to move away or stop attacking you" but it doesn't make any sense here.
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Repellent (adjective) means repugnant, offensive or repulsive.

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